Rumour: XONE might release on 11/08/13

The PlayStation 4 is out in the US on November 15. The Xbox One? Well, it's looking like it could hit the market a week ahead of its competitor. ..

The source, who works for a marketing company that handles signage and product placement for retail giant Walmart, passed along what they say is an email for a company conference call that lists all the midnight openings the chain has planned. ..

I don't think a couple days is anything to get worked up over. It's not going to make someone that was going to get a PS4 cancel their preorder and get a X-Box 3 instead. If it was a couple months then that would be another thing. I have no interest in either of them anyway though I will probably grab a PS4 someday. Assuming it works out like the PS3 where it has interesting exclusives at some point.

Congrats to those getting an XBone I guess, they get the multiplatform next-gen games a week early. I don't really care about any of the games launching this year on either system so I'm not sweating picking up my PS4 later than sooner.

But seriously that's not a bad date assuming the console is as ready as my body.

Who knows the paper does look a bit fake now that Ive seen it a few times.

The date too. It says November 8 but every other game has a double digit day.

If this were true, it would be funny that Xbox One owners would have nothing to play but Call of Duty until the PS4 launched a week later. Funny, and kind of sad.

Either way, whenever these systems come out, they'll both be sold out everywhere, so I hardly see why a week or two matters in either direction. Far more important will be the number of systems both companies can continue to manufacture throughout the holidays, moving into next year.

Well, it won't be out in Switzerland 'til 2014. So despite me warming to the idea of getting an Xbox One, I won't even be able to get one. Oh well, I shouldn't get one 'til its first pricedrop in a couple of years anyways - I really don't need it next to my PC and PS4, I merely want to play its exclusives, some time.

Is there really an advantage to launching a little bit early? You're not going to pull Sony people to the X1, and is anyone on the fence going to take getting it slightly earlier into account? I'd like to think people put more thought into major purchases than that.

Seems absolutely essential that they release ahead of Sony in the US. Sony slipped in that they have a million preorders. I imagine MS would have done the same if they could. Their only hope to bring the numbers up is to align themselves as close as possible to Call of Duty and hope people cancel their PS4 preorders because they want to be a part of the next-gen first bandwagon.

It would also be an uncharacteristic confident move since they would be first with their new servers online. MS better have their ducks in a row, if this is a shitshow the bad PR is going to be venomous.

Considering all he last up to the minute changes Xbone is doing they might not be fit for a November release and then it might be worse than RRod if they dont have the hardware set right.

All of the changes they're doing (removing the online requirement, removing the Kinect requirement) are strictly software based. There would be no reason any of it would have any effect on hardware. If the hardware has issues, it'll be unrelated to all of the post-E3 changes.

I won't be surprised if this turns out to be legit. I kind of figured whoever announced their launch date first, the other would try to beat it by a week. Sony probably feels cautiously comfortable right now, so they don't have to push for a super early release date; MS, on the other hand, has been beaten badly at every stage, so this is their last opportunity to get a shot in and 'win' something in this early race.

Sounds about right, they aren't going to release on black friday or the same day as the ps4. So it's either push it to the 29th or drop early on the 8th, but i think it'll depend on how many units they can finish by that time.

Seems absolutely essential that they release ahead of Sony in the US. Sony slipped in that they have a million preorders. I imagine MS would have done the same if they could. Their only hope to bring the numbers up is to align themselves as close as possible to Call of Duty and hope people cancel their PS4 preorders because they want to be a part of the next-gen first bandwagon.

It would also be an uncharacteristic confident move since they would be first with their new servers online. MS better have their ducks in a row, if this is a shitshow the bad PR is going to be venomous.

Why? I don't think a week either way is going to matter. Not even a month. I'd be highly surprised if both consoles don't sell out their launch stock. The way I see it, the first 10 million will sell as fast as they can manufacture them. And that's still going to take at least 6 months. Microsoft has 4x the user base they did 8 years ago. The market itself is much bigger now than it was 8 years ago.

normally i would say its a good lead but its only a week and if the supply will be limited i don't think it will matter much. If xbones sell out the first few days most people will have to wait anyway.